Driver error can make a fast car seem slow. And a merely quick car that much worse. I have beaten a Talon TSI AWD before. I got toasted at the start and came back and passed him. I beat the driver, not the car. This was of course stock versus stock. I hate to be a bench racer but it can be a helpful tool. Comparing a stock Eclipse GSX #s with a stock 99 SVT, our cars get smoked off the line but by 100mph we are a second ahead. By 120mph its absurd.
C&D 4/99 12/92
CSVT Eclipse GSX
0-60 6.9 0-60 6.4
0-100 19.1 0-100 20.5
0-120 33.1 0-120 41.5
It's not impossible to win.
-R-
